Whatever we say about Him is like a shadow in comparison to the radiance of the sun of the Supreme Being.

Whatever we lack in our personality and find inadequate in this world, we seem to place it in God.

We consider the opposite of all the defects of this world as the qualities of God.

Everything is dying in this world, so we say God is deathless; everything is finite in this world, so we say God is infinite; everything is found only in one place in this world, so we say God is everywhere; everybody knows only certain things in this world, so we say God knows everything; everybody has a little strength, so we say God is all-powerful.

That is to say, we are unable to positively describe what God Himself is, so we describe God as a counterpart of the defects and inadequacies that we see in creation.

What other things can we say about God?

Nobody has seen Him. We have only a feeling about Him, which we arrive at as a conclusion, as an inference from the circumstances of life and the difficulties we are passing through.

The order carriers of Lord Vishnu, who are worshiped even by the demigods, possess wonderful bodily features exactly like those of Vishnu and are very rarely seen. The Vishnudutas protect the devotees of the Lord from the hands of enemies, from envious persons and even from my jurisdiction, as well as from natural disturbances.

annam = food;
caranam = of those that move on wings;
acarah = the nonmoving (fruits and flowers);
hi = indeed;
apadah = the living entities without legs, like the grass;
pada - carinam = of the animals who move on legs, like the cows and buffalo;
ahastah = animals without hands;
hasta-yuktanam = of the animals with hands, like the tigers;
dvi-padam = of human beings, who have two legs;
ca = and;
catush-padah = the four-legged animals like the goat.

By nature’s arrangement, fruits and flowers are considered the food of insects and birds; grass and other legless living entities are meant to be the food of four-legged animals like cows and buffalo; animals that cannot use their front legs as hands are meant to be the food of animals like tigers, which have claws; and four-legged animals lik…